monggo chocolate
picture this:belgian-made chocolate bars, featuring 58% cocoa.the cocoa is grown in java.cashew praline……SENSATIONAL!!!!
monggo chocolate
picture this:belgian-made chocolate bars, featuring 58% cocoa.the cocoa is grown in java.cashew praline……SENSATIONAL!!!!
i need to make soap
i haven’t made soap since jan 29th and i am starting to fester and twitch.i haven’t even THOUGHT about soap very much, until the last couple of days.all this time off has been simply marvellous and i have found the buddhas, elephants, river boats, dim sum, temple bells, balinese dancers ET AL to be very [...]
i need to make soap
i haven’t made soap since jan 29th and i am starting to fester and twitch.i haven’t even THOUGHT about soap very much, until the last couple of days.all this time off has been simply marvellous and i have found the buddhas, elephants, river boats, dim sum, temple bells, balinese dancers ET AL to be very [...]
the elysian
after fifteen hours en route, all throught the night….chiang mai: bangkok: jakarta: ….we finally arrived in my beloved bali.there MUST be a direct flight from chiang mai to bali….i’ll be checking it out soon. we were met at the airport by bored officials who didn’t even want to check our duty free vodka or green [...]
the elysian
after fifteen hours en route, all throught the night….chiang mai: bangkok: jakarta: ….we finally arrived in my beloved bali.there MUST be a direct flight from chiang mai to bali….i’ll be checking it out soon. we were met at the airport by bored officials who didn’t even want to check our duty free vodka or green [...]
elephants and cookery
yesterday, we went back to the mae sa elephant camp, about 40 mins out of chiang mai.we visited there 6 years ago and could hardly believe how the place has changed.the first indication was the piles of enormous chinese tourist buses lined up outside…. six years ago, it was a rough little camp with maybe [...]
elephants and cookery
yesterday, we went back to the mae sa elephant camp, about 40 mins out of chiang mai.we visited there 6 years ago and could hardly believe how the place has changed.the first indication was the piles of enormous chinese tourist buses lined up outside…. six years ago, it was a rough little camp with maybe [...]
vieng joom on,…the pink tea house
today we visited the warorot market…a typical bustling thai market with about fifty million vendors on four or five huge floors housed in and all around an enormous concrete building.underwear! shoes! bags! cosmetics! strange dried things! luridly coloured sweets!below all this, on the basement level….the wet market, with all the fresh food and lots of [...]
vieng joom on,…the pink tea house
today we visited the warorot market…a typical bustling thai market with about fifty million vendors on four or five huge floors housed in and all around an enormous concrete building.underwear! shoes! bags! cosmetics! strange dried things! luridly coloured sweets!below all this, on the basement level….the wet market, with all the fresh food and lots of [...]
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husband in bangkok, using laptop to phone home: this is the magnificent tiger who posed for us at the dusit zoo in bangkok:
chiang mai optical
tonight, on our way to anusarn market for dinner, we stopped at top charoen optical, in the night bazaar.this was an impulse move….but i have been noticing my reading vision getting a little blurry ever since i turned 41.they took me directly out the back and began an eye examination with some very hightech equipment.i [...]
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husband in bangkok, using laptop to phone home: this is the magnificent tiger who posed for us at the dusit zoo in bangkok:
chiang mai optical
tonight, on our way to anusarn market for dinner, we stopped at top charoen optical, in the night bazaar.this was an impulse move….but i have been noticing my reading vision getting a little blurry ever since i turned 41.they took me directly out the back and began an eye examination with some very hightech equipment.i [...]
eating like kings in chiang mai
the food has been fantastic, wherever we have ventured.we’ve had lovely pastries at the bake and bite, just off kotchasarn rd…..excellent coffee at wawee coffee (chiangmai’s answer to starbucks), the outlet on the river ping….really tasty mexican food at art cafe , opposite thapae gate…….scrumptious banana rotis everywhere…….and tonight, a magnificent dinner in the anusarn [...]
ramblings in chiang mai
random notes in chiang mai this is a really strange little city.it’s not “beautiful” in any recognisable way.sure, it has a lovely moat and remnants of a huge brick wall that once circled the old city…..but the rest of it is chaotic and flat and haphazard.and yet there is a real charm here. tonight we [...]
eating like kings in chiang mai
the food has been fantastic, wherever we have ventured.we’ve had lovely pastries at the bake and bite, just off kotchasarn rd…..excellent coffee at wawee coffee (chiangmai’s answer to starbucks), the outlet on the river ping….really tasty mexican food at art cafe , opposite thapae gate…….scrumptious banana rotis everywhere…….and tonight, a magnificent dinner in the anusarn [...]
ramblings in chiang mai
random notes in chiang mai this is a really strange little city.it’s not “beautiful” in any recognisable way.sure, it has a lovely moat and remnants of a huge brick wall that once circled the old city…..but the rest of it is chaotic and flat and haphazard.and yet there is a real charm here. tonight we [...]
trains and chiang mai
train to chiangmai it is chinese new year tonight; the year of the rat begins at midnight.we are on the overnight train to chiangmai and right now are stopped at the old capital of ayutthaya….about 100 minutes from bangkok. leaving bangkok on the train is always somewhat of any eye-opener. you pass by some indescribable [...]
bangkok notes
breakfast at the shangri la we went to sleep with the curtains open, so we could lie in bed and see the lights of bangkok, and the non-stop activity on the chao praya river.our room is wonderfully located on a slight bend of the river,so we have a sweeping view down the river as well [...]
trains and chiang mai
train to chiangmai it is chinese new year tonight; the year of the rat begins at midnight.we are on the overnight train to chiangmai and right now are stopped at the old capital of ayutthaya….about 100 minutes from bangkok. leaving bangkok on the train is always somewhat of any eye-opener. you pass by some indescribable [...]
bangkok notes
breakfast at the shangri la we went to sleep with the curtains open, so we could lie in bed and see the lights of bangkok, and the non-stop activity on the chao praya river.our room is wonderfully located on a slight bend of the river,so we have a sweeping view down the river as well [...]
one night in bangkok and the world’s your oyster
after four hectic, i mean HECTIC, days in hong kong, we staggered onto the plane last night (with literally seconds to spare) and fell into our seats and didn’t move a muscle until arrival in bangkok, 2.5 hours later. very fancy new airport since last we were here…i think the planners have been to hong [...]
one night in bangkok and the world’s your oyster
after four hectic, i mean HECTIC, days in hong kong, we staggered onto the plane last night (with literally seconds to spare) and fell into our seats and didn’t move a muscle until arrival in bangkok, 2.5 hours later. very fancy new airport since last we were here…i think the planners have been to hong [...]
